Parenting with Patricia

Patricia and Christine Emery, the author of Black Cloud Blues, discuss what depression looks like from the child's perspective. The stigma of mental health needs to be removed, and we need to talk to our children about how sadness feels. Christine tells her own story in this book which makes it very different than other children's books with a more clinical slant.

Patricia sits down with Dr. Christoper Haley, of the Social Skills Center and discusses how strengthening your child's social skills can help with anger, anxiety, friendships, autism, and even sibling conflicts.

Parenting Pet Peeves are the things that parents do that drive us crazy and make steam come from our ears. In this episode Patricia will share a parent's pet peeve and argue with them that its not really that annoying. Also, Patricia will share one of her biggest parent pet peeves and you can decide if its worthy to be categorized as a pet peeve or a simple annoyance.

This episode looks closer at depression in children and teens. Patricia visits a high school and has a conversation with the school social worker, Marc DeAngelo, on self injury. She also answers a mom’s email about our children looking at pornography online.

Patricia sits down with Karen Chaudhry, LCSW, a counselor at Counseling of Alexandria and discusses why kids have temper tantrums. They talk about how to prevent tantrums and what to do when your child melts down. She talks with a mom of twins and finds out how it feels to have double the fun. Patricia also answers an email from a dad concerned about his teenager daughter’s boyfriend.